jack finney

Looking for a short story from the 1960s (I think), a guy's uncle wrote a fishing column for the newspaper, too flowery, too long. Someone gives him a machine that vacuums the adjectives out of the text; became a great column. You could adjust it -- just vacuum the big adjectives, etc...

Possibly Ray Bradbury short story. A new travel agency has advt in window for trip of a lifetime to place of your dreams. Sets a place and time, bring all your cash to a shed somewhere... sound of his car driving away...

Hi all. Just joined as I was reading posts in this forum till 3am. Hope you can help. Im looking for a book I read secondhand in early 80's. It had sevral love stories or romances. 1) adolescent male on another world who spent so much time with a female robot - kind of carer or family...

Can anyone help me out with this? Plot concerns a New York male who on his way home from the office always stops at a certain newsstand to buy the afternoon paper. One evening he receives a strange coin (maybe a Roosevelt nickel?). This coin is a talisman which moves him into a parallel...

Perhaps there are two ways to write great SFF. One is to show people amazing sights, dazzle them with things that they will never have seen before. Dune, the Gormenghast books and The Lord of the Rings are like this. The other way is to write about a theme or an issue: maybe not in as direct a...

I am trying to find a short story, that I read as part of an anthology, when I was a kid, maybe 25 to 30 years ago. I cant remember many of the details. This is what I remember. A man who is unhappy with his life, buys a ticket from a stranger. The stranger tells him that this ticket will...